<p>What are the best colleges for economics? and for political science?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Harvard and U of Chicago</p>
<p>How much math is involved in econ? Calc? Stats?</p>
<p>It depends on the school, but you're probably going to have to take a bit of calc and a reasonable amount of stats (at the minimum).</p>
<p>The top LACs, Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams</p>
<p>Try Princeton.</p>
<p>Northwestern Universitry!!!!</p>
<p>I believe berkely is pretty solid for poli sci, but I have no clue for economics</p>
<p>Columbia is well known in the humanities including Poli Sci. I have heard that the Econ department is also very good (I am a Columbia '09 and looking into a possible Econ major).</p>
<p>London School of Economics and Political Science</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>just curious (not meant to be seen as an attack) what is so great about Northwestern's poli sci department?</p>
<p>I know that Northwestern's econ department is in the top ten, if not five, in the US. And in this case, (usually) if one department is good, so is the other.</p>
<p>"just curious (not meant to be seen as an attack) what is so great about Northwestern's poli sci department?"</p>
<p>-Great professors, interested students, research opportunities .</p>
<p>it's a good, but not great program at NU (poli sci that is)</p>
<p>You could study International Political Economy at Georgetown...</p>
<p>Actually, Georgetown has excellent programs in both economics and political science. Definitely a good place for the two fields. :)</p>
<p>how is emory in this area?</p>
<p>My search turned up George Washington University of DC and Trinity College of CT, and both are my top 2 choices (I am applying ED to Trinity). GWU is well known for its Political Science department, and with a bit of research I found that Trinity is just about as good, and also has cheaper tuition</p>
<p>"it's a good, but not great program at NU"
-Just how do you know this? Have you spent time in the program? If no, then you have no idea about what you speak..</p>
<p>you're biased my friend. I mean it's not up with the leaders in the field. I didn't say I wouldn't go there for poli sci. I didn't say it was a bad program. It's a very good program. But for someone looking to go to the top poli sci programs in the nation, I wouldn't put NU at the top of my list, though it would be included</p>